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Canadians Affected by Breast Cancer —

I'm wondering how many West Coast Gals we currently have on here. It makes it a little easier to compare notes as our health-care is provincial. Would be nice to share tips and such to each other as we wade though the health-care Bureaucracy.

I'm in Richmond BC (a part of the Vancouver Lower Mainland) and the majority of my treatment has been at Vancouver General Hospital and Vancouver Cancer Agency.. with a few small surgical procedures done at UBC and my original Lumpectomy at Richmond General. My GP is also in Richmond. Ive been on the BCO boards since 2007 with a few breaks.

How important it is to go back to the lab that did your diagnostic mammogram? I did mine at a private lab in North Van, my only ever mammogram in that location. They made mistake on the result, left breast vs, right breast so not high on my confidence. Then did my ultrasound guided biopsy at Lion's gate.

One of Rad oncologist said I should do all the mammogram at BCCA so they have good comparisons. Then another rad concologist said I should go back to either the private lab or the Lion's Gate since they have the historic scan.

Will BCCA bother to look at it if I am able to get them a digital copy of historic scan?

I am pretty sure Stacey, Can’t remember her Bcaa name, will want to come. As you know I am away in Europe and I’m trying to get a hold of her but please add her for now and I will let you know ASAP if she will in fact be able to come. She has come to all the others so I feel that she will want to be with us.

Thanks Marian. I went to the restaurant today to see where we will be sitting and asked for the quieter area at the back. But maybe we will be the noisy ones!

Here is the list of who I think is coming. Please let me know if there are any changes:

Wrenn

Koshka

MarianElizabeth

Walden

Ossa

NVDobie

Moth

Pots

Kathy044

Ase (with Kathy)

BlueSky

Van2018

DearLife

I will post another reminder closer to the day but here are the details of our lunch:

1:00 pm Saturday November 24

Cactus Club, Broadway and Ash

It’s very close to the Broadway and Cambie Canada Line station. The restaurant says “there is always parking on Ash” and there may be parking on Broadway since it is not a weekday. Bring loonies for the meters.

One thing to note - because we are more than 10 people, there is an automatic 18.5% gratuity added to each individual bill. So the tip is already included.

The tables are reserved in my name - Pearl. (I didn’t want to tell them my first name was Dear 😃.)

Great to meet you all on Saturday. Just wanted to share this info from ASCO, as a lot of us seemed to be discussing hormone therapy options: http://www.ascopost.com/News/58912. I think it gives some guidance on who benefits from the various options. Hope you find it useful.

I meant to ask at lunch if anyone has been advised to do 10 years of tamoxifen? If so, do you know if BCCA is ordering the oncotest that is designed to look at the benefits of extending therapy beyond 5 years?